Press Club Announces Winners of 2022 Golden Quill Awards

Quills co-hosts Barbara Johnson and Andrew Conte at Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh, Pa.

PITTSBURGH, May 24, 2022 – The Press Club of Western Pennsylvania announced the winners of the 58th Golden Quill Awards tonight at the Rivers Casino, Pittsburgh. The Golden Quills competition honors professional and student excellence in print, broadcast, photography, videography and digital journalism in Western Pennsylvania and nearby counties in Ohio and West Virginia.

Here are the winners of the 2022 Golden Quill Awards.

Also this evening, the Press Club honored Lynne Hayes-Freeland, retired KDKA-TV and KDKA Radio talk show host, with its President’s Award, and Jennifer Bertetto, Trib Total Media president and CEO, and the late Curt Chandler, associate teaching professor at Penn State University, with Service to Journalism Awards.

The Press Club recognized Penn State University junior Lilly Riddle of State College, winner of the 2022 Bob Fryer Memorial Scholarship, and Longwood University junior Peyton Schaffer, of Washington, Pa., winner of the 2022 Press Club of Western Pennsylvania Scholarship.

The premier sponsor of the 2022 Golden Quills is Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield & Allegheny Health Network. Underwriter sponsors are The Heinz Endowments, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Trib Total Media.